This study investigated the effects of a gender-based violence (GBV) educational curriculum on improving male attitudes toward women and increasing the likelihood of intervention if witnessing GBV, among adolescent boys ...

Many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries continue to be challenged by their information technology (IT) adoption process, which is often characterized by a number of deficiencies. The purpose of ...

Background: Over the years, there has been a growing interest in organisational research in the absorptive capacity (AC) construct, but only a few theoretical and empirical studies on this topic have been carried out over ...

The populations of Leguminosae nodulating bacteria (LNB) were assessed under glasshouse conditions in soils collected from various land use systems in Embu and Taita benchmark sites. The populations were estimated by the ...

This paper seeks to examine the meanings and challenges of academic freedom for
African universities and intellectuals as they confront old and new pressures from
globalization, governments, and the general public. It ...

Academics in both the industrial world and developing countries face funding declines, growing state intervention, public hostility, and corporate pressure. Simultaneously, they are experiencing internal wars over policy, ...

The purpose of the current work was to investigate whether word type moderates the learning of vocabulary words in a new language. English-speaking monolinguals were trained on a matched set of concrete (e.g., jewel), ...

This study was designed to investigate the acquisition of English Wh-interrogatives by secondary school pupils who are Dholuo L1 speakers. The utterances of two groups, identified on the basis of a proficiency tests, were ...

This paper explores Africa’s engagements with the Diaspora in South
America. It argues that the linkages have far deeper roots than is generally
recognized by focusing on nineteenth-century demographic and cultural
flows. ...

The last 10 years have brought unexpected shifts in global power relationships
as traditionally powerful states have lost legitimacy and ceded authority to
new players. The power of the United States and United Kingdom ...

1. Introduction
International Criminal Court (ICC or the Court) interventions in Africa have over the last decade
become an issue which increasingly informs and impacts international relations, domestic politics
and the ...

The literature on international migration is dominated by economic and political perspectives. This paper begins with the culturalist readings to remind ourselves that there is more to international migration than the ...

This essay commemorates the large historical lives of Chinua Achebe and Nelson Mandela, both of whom died in 2013. It is noted that the nature of African and world reactions to the deaths of the two men undoubtedly reflected ...

The dramatic growth in the relationship between Africa and China is one of the great stories of the twenty-first century, part of the profound transformations taking place in the global political economy. It has been greeted ...

Because of the focus on the impact of “brain drain,” discussions centered on the African academic diaspora often fail to highlight the expansive and innovative relationships between institutions of higher education across ...